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How to quickly oust a University president?
Topic Started: Nov 9 2015, 12:37 PM (635 Views)
Banandangees
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Stoned
Nov 10 2015, 10:33 PM
Banandangees
Nov 10 2015, 09:58 PM
campingken
Nov 10 2015, 02:05 AM
Since blacks make up 13% of our population only 13% of players on all college and professional teams should be black. That's fair and would make the 1950 committee happy..

This blacks are always victims BS is getting really old. Everyone of the football players who went on strike should have their scholarship pulled.

There is no evidence of the school chancellor doing anything racists except that he
didn't get out of his car and speak with angry blacks (The white truck driver who was beaten half to death at the start of the King riots is an example of what happens when you do this) and he refused to admit that he was hired because of white privilege (the knuckleheads have this confused with affirmative action that penalized you for being white.)

I might be mistaken Camp, but I think Stoned (via his Post#11 link) just unintentionally placed you in the same category with Ben Shapiro, Leon Wolf and Rush Limbaugh as a "white-hot, emotional melt-downed, white conservative" for your comments on the Univ. of Missouri situation. You know the faith and trust that he puts in every pearl that dribbles from the written lips of "Raw Story, Salon and Media Matters."

Actually, I think your comments here are pretty much "dead on balls accurate." This comment in Stoned's linked article pretty much bears that out:

"Initially the reaction of faculty and staff at UM had been to ignore the demands by students and activists, but when the college’s football team went on strike, the university was forced to acknowledge their grievances."

They are allowing students (young neophytes), activists and a football team to run the university..... not the best way to resolve grievances. IMO
I think we have just found out what really matters to the University, money,and maybe this tactic will become more prevalent. I did not comment on the righteousness of the cause.

Ken and I disagree about a lot of things.


I think now there is a good chance that such a tactic will become more prevelant. Football teams and student activists see now that they can control the schools. UM could have nipped such tactics in the bud by using the rules of the school (and I assume quite similar rules as in other universities). They could have turned to the football team and said "it's your choice," but if you don't go to practice, don't go to class, the next game will be cancelled and forfeited..... and each game after that if you don't meet your signed commitment; and/or, if you boycott the game and don't abide by your commitment, your athletic scholarship will be cancelled. Any student who didn't abide by the rules of the school (as with the laws of the country/state/locality), you will be suspended. Such policy would send a message to football teams of other schools that the same may happen. Instead they sent a bad message, a message that football players and student activists can run the school.

There are avenues for such grievances (or should be), but caving to the pressures of student, activists or football players outside the protocol of such avenues for grievances shouldn't be tolerated. What they have done is weakened any university position for it's rules and regulations. Now they have opened a can of worms.
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Banandangees
Nov 11 2015, 04:25 AM
Stoned
Nov 10 2015, 10:33 PM
Banandangees
Nov 10 2015, 09:58 PM
campingken
Nov 10 2015, 02:05 AM
Since blacks make up 13% of our population only 13% of players on all college and professional teams should be black. That's fair and would make the 1950 committee happy..

This blacks are always victims BS is getting really old. Everyone of the football players who went on strike should have their scholarship pulled.

There is no evidence of the school chancellor doing anything racists except that he
didn't get out of his car and speak with angry blacks (The white truck driver who was beaten half to death at the start of the King riots is an example of what happens when you do this) and he refused to admit that he was hired because of white privilege (the knuckleheads have this confused with affirmative action that penalized you for being white.)

I might be mistaken Camp, but I think Stoned (via his Post#11 link) just unintentionally placed you in the same category with Ben Shapiro, Leon Wolf and Rush Limbaugh as a "white-hot, emotional melt-downed, white conservative" for your comments on the Univ. of Missouri situation. You know the faith and trust that he puts in every pearl that dribbles from the written lips of "Raw Story, Salon and Media Matters."

Actually, I think your comments here are pretty much "dead on balls accurate." This comment in Stoned's linked article pretty much bears that out:

"Initially the reaction of faculty and staff at UM had been to ignore the demands by students and activists, but when the college’s football team went on strike, the university was forced to acknowledge their grievances."

They are allowing students (young neophytes), activists and a football team to run the university..... not the best way to resolve grievances. IMO
I think we have just found out what really matters to the University, money,and maybe this tactic will become more prevalent. I did not comment on the righteousness of the cause.

Ken and I disagree about a lot of things.


I think now there is a good chance that such a tactic will become more prevelant. Football teams and student activists see now that they can control the schools. UM could have nipped such tactics in the bud by using the rules of the school (and I assume quite similar rules as in other universities). They could have turned to the football team and said "it's your choice," but if you don't go to practice, don't go to class, the next game will be cancelled and forfeited..... and each game after that if you don't meet your signed commitment; and/or, if you boycott the game and don't abide by your commitment, your athletic scholarship will be cancelled. Any student who didn't abide by the rules of the school (as with the laws of the country/state/locality), you will be suspended. Such policy would send a message to football teams of other schools that the same may happen. Instead they sent a bad message, a message that football players and student activists can run the school.

There are avenues for such grievances (or should be), but caving to the pressures of student, activists or football players outside the protocol of such avenues for grievances shouldn't be tolerated. What they have done is weakened any university position for it's rules and regulations. Now they have opened a can of worms.
It probably will spread and we will see who "caves" and who does not. We will see what administration has the balls to cancel the entire team's scholarships. We are talking millions of bucks here.

Don't hold your breath.
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One of the talking heads on a sports network said the reason the University caved was because every game that was cancelled would have cost the university a million dollars in lost ticket sales, concessions and tv royalties. It would also have meant that UM would be unable to recruit top rate athletes in the future. Football is a big money maker and there are a lot of fans, who spend big bucks to attend the games and alumni like to brag about their teams. Whether we like it or not, sometimes, radical action is necessary to get the attention of the people who can change things.
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Thank God it was over racism and not diddling with young boys like Penn State.
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Care to share with us just how Penn State was guilty of any of that?
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It was a driveby to get you Jim, ignore him.
I think this incident shows just how far race relations have been set back by this administration of Obi.
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I know, I just like for him to show how little he knows. I realize he is here to start a fight and then run. That is his way.
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They are over there whining about why their board is not doing well. They can't seem to figure it out. LOL
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With their current membership I am not surprised.
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